Robust and Nimble Caribou and Landscape Modelling Using SpaDES

A 2 hour workshop focusing on learning robust approaches to building reuseable, reproducible workflows for Caribou habitat modeling and forecasting

Date: June 14, 2026

Location: North American Caribou Workshop

• Workshop: Robust and Nimble Caribou and Landscape Modelling Using SpaDES
• Workshop leads: Eliot McIntire and Julie Turner (with on-site assistance from Genèvieve Degré-Timmons). Please direct any questions related to the workshop subject and materials to the workshop lead(s).
• Venue: Explorer Hotel, Katimavik B
• Date/Time: Monday, June 15, 13:30-15:30 or until finished

Preparation

We will be discussing ideas around reproducibility and reusability in the first part. In the second part, we will have an opportunity to see and run an example using R. If you would like to run code on your laptop, you should have a recent Rstudio, or Positron installed, and at least R 4.5.3 downloaded.

Agenda

1:30 - 2:00	Robust and Nimble Caribou and Landscape Modelling Using SpaDES - presentation | | Background publication to the nimble approach: The PERFICT approach (McIntire et al 2022) |
2:00 - 2:30	setupProject for nimble workflows |
2:30 - 3:30	We will work through the example in the training manual: Project with caribou RSF forecasting

Next workshop

If you missed it, but would like to attend a future workshop, please reach out to Eliot or Julie so that we can add you to the wait list.